Friday, January 31, 2014

A popular gifted-student program at a New York City elementary school
is getting the ax after school officials decided it lacked diversity.

PS
139 Principal Mary McDonald told parents in a letter Jan. 24 that
Students of Academic Rigor, or SOAR, would no longer accept applications
for incoming kindergartners, the New York Daily News reported.

“Our
Kindergarten classes will be heterogeneously grouped to reflect the
diversity of our student body and the community we live in,” Miss
McDonald said in the letter posted on Flickr.com.

At least one parent described SOAR as largely white, while others disagreed, the report said.

One mother conceded the program did have a lot of white students, but worried gifted students now won’t be challenged enough.

“Where
are they going to put the higher-level students? Sometimes, there are
different levels, and teachers can’t handle all the levels in one
class,” she told the Daily News.

WARNING: This video contains gore and strong elements of violence that may offend some readers. Proceed with caution.

Anewad encouraging young people to stay in school is generating a lot of buzz on the Internet — and after you watch it, you will immediately understand why. The online PSA, which claims to be produced by the “Learn for Life Foundation of Western Australia,” appears to show a group of kids ditch school for what they think is a fun day at the beach.

Things, however, end in a very unexpected fashion. “This is what happens when you slack off,” the video says. “Stay in school.” It was not clear whether the organization purporting to have created the ad was authentic, but since the video was uploaded Tuesday, it had already achieved nearly half-a-million hits.

This year at SHOT it was hard to walk 10 feet without encountering a
tactical rifle, or a rifle that was designed for long range, or a rifle
that cost $3,000. Apparently there are a lot of people out there who are
not shy about spending three large on a good gun, and boy, are there
some good ones.

Affordable ones.

1) Forbes Rifles

Forbes Rifles which is located in Maine, and builds a less expensive
version of the New Ultra Light Arms rifle, which is made in West by God
Virginia, began production with a distinctly limited number of calibers
and configurations. But for 2014, there are right and left hand guns,
long and short actions, stainless or chrome-moly barrels and receivers, a
choice of solid colors and ten camo patterns, and lots of new calibers.
Like the parent guns, Forbes Rifles are extremely light, dead accurate,
and unchanging of zero, but are priced in the $1500-$1600 range, which
is about half of what a NULA costs. ForbesRifleStore.com

Voters in one Oklahoma region represented by Rep. Jim Brindenstine may look meek and mild, maybe even sweet, but their opinions of President Obama reveal nothing but a battleground “take-no-prisoners” attitude.

One lady, for example, said there needs to be changes in the Senate so “we can impeach the SOB.”

Said another, “He’s not president as far as I’m concerned. … Should be executed. He’s an enemy combatant.”

She complained that Congress is doing nothing and that “allows this moron to make decisions. He has no authority. None.”

His legacy as a military genius is widely renowned. Now, in Still
Standing: The Stonewall Jackson Story, his legacy as a man of resolute
Christian character is captured in this revealing documentary.

Through
stunning High Definition videography and expert narrative, Still
Standing traces the life of Stonewall Jackson—from his orphaned
childhood, to the Sunday School class he taught for African Americans,
to the role he played as a General. Still Standing inspires, entertains,
and educates.

Harger
returned from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers
Association Convention on Monday, January 27, 2014 with a sense of
knowing that, he as well as 38 other peace officers, shared the
commitment to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of
America from enemies both foreign and domestic. He and the other 38 men
and women signed the Resolution of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (see below).

The
following morning, Harger was informed by Sheriff Douglas C. Wood of
Sandoval County, New Mexico, that Harger was to dismantle the Jamez
Springs Police Department.

The healthiest and most intuitive response to deep-seated, irreconcilable unhappiness – political or personal – is not to hold a constitutional convention, Mark Levin, but to leave, to exit the abusive relationship.

It is indeed inexplicable how the famous broadcaster trashes secession but, at the same time, looks to the states for salvation.

To reclaim the republic, Levin and his listeners hold out hope for the atrophied states and their unexercised role in the amendment process, as stipulated in Article V of the Constitution.

Never mind that the states, contrary to the mistaken predictions and hopes of the Constitution makers, have never initiated a constitutional amendment; and never mind that even in the event the states demand a constitutional convention, there is no mechanism to compel Congress to act.

President Obama’s longtime buddy, unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, Thursday night told debate opponent Dinesh D’Souza and an audience at Dartmouth College that the Constitution is an outmoded document and it ought to be changed.

Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, were the main founders of the domestic terror group the Weather Underground, which was assigned responsibility for dozens of bombings aimed at destroying the defense and security infrastructure of the U.S.

D’Souza is the maker of the movie “2016: Obama’s America,” which is the second-highest grossing political documentary of all time.

It blasts Obama’s policies and actions, and warns America about what the nation would be under Obama’s vision for the United States.

See Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016: Obama’s America” and his books in the WNS Superstore.

Members of the Chinese military are looking to use an electromagnetic pulse as part of a “one-two punch” to knock out – literally within seconds – all defensive electronics not only on Taiwan but also on U.S. warships that could defend the island.

This revelation comes in an article by Lou Xiaoqing who says the People’s Liberation Army sees an EMP weapon as the primary means of incapacitating Taiwan and disabling American defenders nearby.

Given that such a strategy was made public in an article entitled “Electromagnetic pulse bombs are Chinese ace,” it is seen as reflecting the official Chinese government position.

Xaoqing said that if the Chinese were to use a high-altitude nuclear device which would create the destructive EMP impact on Taiwan’s electronics, it would be exploded at an attitude of 18 miles to avoid damaging civilian and military equipment on the Chinese mainland, which might happen if the bomb exploded at a higher altitude.

“China is attracted to the fight against the U.S. military after the effective range, using them as a means of surprise attack or an intimidation factor,” Xaoqing said. “The United States will abandon the use of aircraft carrier battle groups to defend Taiwan.”

Xaoqing said that the Chinese military has calculated that the U.S. military is too fragmented and, coupled with the downturn in the economy, would be less likely to come to Taiwan’s assistance, forcing Taiwan to defend itself.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) thinks that the House GOP leadership’s renewed
push this week to grant amnesty to illegal aliens would destroy the
Republican Party’s chances at retaking the Senate in 2014.

Cruz questioned how establishment Republicans unilaterally caving to
Democrats on everything from the farm bill to the budget to the debt
ceiling and more could think amnesty is a good idea at this time.

"Right now, Republican leadership in both chambers is aggressively
urging members to stand down on virtually every front: on the continuing
resolution, on the budget, on the farm bill, on the debt ceiling,” Cruz
said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News on Thursday.
He continued:

Representative
Larry Pittman (R, Cabarrus, GRNC ****) was critical to passing the
largest expansion of gun rights in North Carolina history, House Bill
937.

How
so? With GRNC support, Pittman led a “floor fight” to return restaurant
carry to a bill from which leadership had stripped it. Realizing the
seriousness of the effort, House leadership later moved restaurant
carry, the Senate improved it, and the rest is history.

It takes guts to stand up to leadership in defense of gun rights,
but there is a price: So called “mainstream” Republicans are determined
to remove Pittman. Now the most pro-gun member of the NC House is
facing a well-financed RINO in the primary. What will you do about it?

GRNC President Paul Valone invites you to...

Defend most pro-gun NC House Rep

How? Buy
a ticket to the GRNC-PVF "Rep. Larry Pittman Benefit Shoot", where you
can meet both Rep. Pittman and GRNC President Paul Valone. Bring a .22
rimfire and/or centerfire handgun and compete for prizes in each
division. You can even shoot a machine gun! (Machine gun/ammo not incl.
in price).

Where? Eagle Guns, 3789 Roberta Church Road SW,

Concord, North Carolina 28027-9011, (704) 788-9013

When? February 27, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Participants
will receive a 10% ammo discount. Everyone will have to watch a
training video. Kids 7-15 can shoot with a parent present. Machine gun
shooters must be at least 15 years old.

Pro-gun Trudy Wade plans fundraiser

Another
friend of NC gun owners is Sen. Trudy Wade (R, Guilford, GRNC ****)
who is campaigning for re-election to the NC Senate District 27.

Sen.
Wade's fundraiser will be held February 11, from 6 – 9 pm at Riders in
the Country, 5701 Randleman Road, Randleman, NC. $100 donations provide
prime rib dinner for two and raffle entry to win a Jeep Wrangler sport
or $15,000. A cash bar will be available.

Tickets can be purchased at the next Greensboro gun show, Feb. 1st and 2nd, Saturday 9 am – 5 pm and Sunday 9 am – 4 pm, at a table at the end of Hall A near the restrooms.

For
those unable to pick up tickets at the gun show, see Sen. Wade's
website for more information and to make a $100.00 donation online http://trudyforsenate.com/events-1.html. Call 336-549-4441 for more information or to have the tickets delivered.

President Obama set the chattering classes abuzz after his unilateral
announcement to raise the minimum wage. During his State of the Union
address, he sang the praises for his action, saying that “It’s good for the economy; it’s good for America.”[1] Yet this conclusion doesn’t pass the economic smell test; just look at the data from Europe.

A major Roman Catholic organization on Thursday called for a boycott of Thin Mints, Shortbread, Peanut Butter Sandwich and other Girl Scout cookies, seeking to undercut funding for the pro-abortion agenda of the historic girls’ organization.

“The Girl Scouts was once a trusted organization dedicated to character building in young girls and women. Now, GSUSA is abusing that trust,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League, the nation’s oldest Catholic pro-life education and advocacy group.

“Most parents and grandparents remain painfully unaware the GSUSA has introduced so-called ‘family planning’ ideology in its curriculum and promotes groups like Planned Parenthood to our daughters and granddaughters,” she said.

Mrs.
Rebecca Levy resided in the New Orleans home of her brother,
Confederate cabinet member Judah Benjamin, at the time of the enemy
occupation. Northern General Butler seized the home “and also certain
other possessions which [he] could lay his hands on, including a black
tin box full of Tehuantepec bonds and other papers.” Mrs. Levy escaped
to Georgia for the war’s duration.

“Some
of the most prominent persons of the Union were imbued with prejudice
against the Jews. One of these was Major-General Benjamin F. Butler of
Massachusetts, conniving careerist and political opportunist of major
proportions, who was given the title “Beast” by the Confederacy for his
severity during the early military occupation of New Orleans.

One
of his better known victims was Mrs. Philip Phillips, wife of the
Alabama Congressman, a fire-eating secessionist in skirts. Butler
ordered her imprisoned on Ship Island for months . . . . The war Butler
waged upon this Jewess and other Southern women made him the
Confederacy’s “Public Enemy Number One,” with a price upon his head.

The
General revealed the extent to which he had imbibed prejudicial
conceptions of the Jews. They were [to him] a tightly-knit and highly
organized nation who set themselves apart and defended themselves
against others even when one of their group was wrong. They were all
“traders, merchants, and bankers.” They were supporting the Confederacy
with whole heart – “two of them certainly are in the Confederate
Cabinet.”

[A
Jewish editor] wondered who the Cabinet officers were . . . the
progenitor of “the tribe of Benjamin, the Jewish Secretary of State,” as
Butler referred to him in another connection; and then a highly
inaccurate report: “I refer to Mr. Memminger as the other member of the
Confederate Cabinet. I have been informed that Mr. [Stephen] Mallory is
also of the Jewish faith or nationality.” It was apparent that Butler
was one of those who, without further investigation, adopt any rumors
which support their prejudices.

The
Jewish Record of New York . . . reported that Butler had said “he could
suck the blood of every Jew, and he would detain every Jew as long as
he can.” The editor of the Record said he was afraid to publish details
of Butler’s mistreatment of Jewish prisoners because it would only give
him a chance to “increase his severities” against them.”

Here are the statements, in quotations, followed by my comments in response.

"Let
us teach honestly and boldly that education is not only the best thing
for which public money can be spent, but that it is also the most
expensive. Nothing except ignorance is more
costly than education."

How
self-serving can you get?! This is nothing less than an arrogant
declaration by the elitist educational bureaucracy that, even as our
public educational system continues to crank out graduates
who can't even read their diplomas, they will demand more and more
power and funding for their social engineering education monopoly. This
is not a reflection on dedicated teachers who do the best they can for
our children, but on the corrupt system that
pressures them to serve an agenda that is detrimental to true,
worthwhile education.

"Love worked where discipline failed."

How
preposterous! Do these people not understand that discipline is an act
of love? Discipline is not synonymous with punishment. Discipline may
sometimes have to include punishment when
punishment becomes necessary. However, discipline is training.
Discipline is setting a positive example, sharing truthful knowledge,
and influencing the student, or disciple, to deal responsibly with that
training and to embrace self-discipline. Caring
enough for our children to urge them toward an informed, responsible
and self-disciplined approach to life is a very loving thing to do, even
if it sometimes requires punishment to get their attention and
demonstrate the gravity of their actions.

"by example, almost never by words"

This
is an insipid half-truth. Certainly, an example that shows our words to
be insincere benefits no one, and words are pretty empty if our example
contradicts them. Yet, without a cogent
explanation, few will learn the meaning and value of the example or the
value of following it.

"Learning in old age is writing on sand, but learning in youth is writing on stone."

There
is a bit more truth to this one. It is true that when we get very old,
we retain less of what we once knew and find it hard to learn new
things, while young minds normally can learn and
retain knowledge much more easily. For instance, it is much easier for
a child to learn a foreign language than it is for an adult. However,
one glaring implication of this statement is that it is a waste of time
trying to teach older people anything. It
implies that members of the older generation are old fogies and that
young people know everything. Therefore young people don’t need to
listen to the older generation. This tends toward a devaluing of the
older generation, who have much to teach us if we
will only give them a chance. The idea that childhood is the time of
perfection is wishful thinking.

So
much for your tax dollars at work at DPI! We'd be much better served
by putting the authority in public education back at the local level,
in the hands of parents and teachers, in that order. Representative Larry G. PittmanNorth Carolina General AssemblyHouse of Representatives1321 Legislative Building16 W. Jones StreetRaleigh, NC 27601-1096919-715-2009larry.pittman@ncleg.net

Whitetails are extraordinary athletes, but not even the most motivated
among them can clear a deer fence. Luckily, the doe in this video seemed
to be OK after her failed attempt. Here's a note to all the motorist
videographers out there: please give the deer plenty of distance.

This is a six week course providing an overview of Thomas Jefferson's
work and perspectives presented by the University of Virginia in
partnership with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Together, UVA and
Monticello are recognized internationally as a UNESCO World Heritage
Site.

A grand jury in Tarrant County, Texas
has decided not to indict the rookie police officer who shot dead a
homeowner while investigating a burglary at the wrong address.

Last
May, R.A. 'Alex' Hoeppner and his partner Benjamin Hanlon accidentally
started searching 72-year-old Jerry Waller's property, confusing it in
the dark for a house across the street. Waller
was in bed with his wife Kathy at the time, and was stirred by the
police officer's flashlights. Fearing a prowler was outside, he grabbed
his .35-caliber-pistol and went to investigate.

According to a search warrant affidavit released by the Star-Telegram in
July, the two officers encountered an armed Waller near the corner of
his home, told them they were police and to drop his gun.

Waller didn't drop his gun and instead raised it at Hoeppner who proceeded to fatally shoot the senior citizen seven times.

The Black Student Union at the University of Michigan (UMBSU) is back in the news. Last week, LU reported that the UMBSU had delivered an ultimatum to the administration to meet seven demands (including a requirement that 10% of the campus be represented by black students) or face “physical action.” That sounds like a threat of violence, which may well explain the BSU’s latest demand: that the race of suspects in campus-related crime be stricken from crime alerts.

Rep. Henry Waxman, one of Congress' fiercest negotiators and a policy expert on everything from clean air to health care,
will retire at the end of the year after four decades in the House.

"It's
time for someone else to have the chance to make his or her mark," the
liberal California Democrat said in a statement announcing he won't seek
re-election.

"I never imagined I would be in the House for 40
years and be able to advance every issue I care deeply about," he added.
"It has been an extraordinary experience."

Not one, however, without a degree of disillusionment.

In
his 3 ½-page statement, Waxman explicitly condemned conservative House
Republicans elected in 2010. "I abhor the extremism of the Tea Party,"
he said, adding he's "embarrassed that the greatest legislative body in
the world too often operates in a partisan intellectual vacuum, denying
science, refusing to listen to experts, and ignoring facts."

“Democrat control of Congress
bodes well for oppressive gun laws, [and] a huge influx of newly legal
voters from cultures where draconian government control over private
firearm ownership is an unquestioned matter [helps]. Bloomberg can
hardly be unaware of that.” -- The Examiner, January 29, 2014

The good thing about anti-gun liberals in Washington is that they are pathologically incapable of keeping their mouths shut.And, Wednesday morning, shortly before 9:00,
MSNBC commentator Dick Gregory announced that House Speaker John
Boehner, the day before, had told a private meeting of reporters that he
had been talking with Barack Obama "a lot" about pushing immigration
reform.It's pretty clear why Barack Obama wants a bill which would either
legalize or grant citizenship to as many as 11.5 million people who,
according to Latinos expressing their opinions in a Pew poll, would cast
88% of their votes for liberals like Barack Obama.It's also clear what Speaker Boehner has in mind: If he sabotages
his own party, the liberal media will throw him a "doggie treat."But, for other House Republicans, the advantage of having an Obama/Boehner knife in their back is a little less clear.A note on why gun owners have "skin" in the immigration game: By
turning a net 8,000,000 people into an "Obama army," even "legalization"
without immediate citizenship would fundamentally change electoral
politics for the 2014 elections.This is why, along with gun control, former New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg has made immigration "reform" his central priority.The anti-gun Bloomberg knows that "legalization" of persons
unlawfully in the U.S. will create an "Obama army" which will transform
the 2014 elections and achieve the almost impossible task of delivering
the House and the Senate to the party of gun control.With Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in power in 2015, the "Obama
army" will then get their "citizenship" reward -- and gun control will
advance.This “Obama army” has already made several appearances:Remember how, in November, children of illegals ambushed House Speaker John Boehner in a local diner over breakfast?Remember how a mob of pro-amnesty spectators turned the U.S. Senate into a pep rally last June by chanting Obama's campaign slogan, "Yes we can," from the Senate gallery?Remember how Bloomberg orchestrated out-of-state agitators who
descended on the town hall meetings of Senators like Kelly Ayotte and
Jeff Flake in order to demand gun control last Spring?Multiply this by a million, and you will understand the
ramifications of giving Obama an anti-gun army, going into the 2014
elections.ACTION: Contact your congressman. Tell him to stand up to House Speaker John Boehner at this weekend's
"retreat" and to oppose the creation of an "Obama army." There are
separate letters for Republican and Democrat Congressmen. Based on your
zip code, the correct letter will be automatically selected.

On Tuesday
President Obama gave his “State of the Union” address, in which he gave
his view of where our nation is right now and where we are headed.

But what about parental rights? Where are we and where are we
headed? It turns out we are not as free and secure as we would like to
be, and we’re heading in the wrong direction. Here is an overview of
parental rights in America as we begin 2014.

Medical Freedom - Hospitals:

Boston Children’s Hospital and the Massachusetts Department of Youth and Families take another child hostage because hospital staff disagree with the parents on the child’s medical diagnosis.In California, “Baby Sammy” was taken from his parents because they left one hospital to seek a second opinion at another before subjecting the child to open-heart surgery.

It's harder and harder these days to tell a liberal from a conservative --
given the former category's increasingly blatant hostility toward the First
Amendment, and the latter's prissy new disdain for the Second Amendment -- but
it's still easy to tell a liberal from a libertarian.

Just ask about either Amendment.

If what you get back is a spirited defense of the ideas of this country's
Founding Fathers, what you've got is a libertarian. By shameful default,
libertarians have become America's last and only reliable stewards of the
Bill of Rights.

But if -- and this usually seems a bit more difficult to most people --
you'd like to know whether an individual is a libertarian or a conservative,
ask about Abraham Lincoln.

GRNC
High Risk Restaurant alerts enable you to identify restaurants,
theaters and other assemblies for which admission is charged that post
signs prohibiting concealed carry. It is important that you report
posted restaurants, contact listed merchants to let them know why you
are unable to patronize their businesses, and register your opinion on
social media networks and review sites.

FOCUS MERCHANTS:
In
particular, we ask that you contact the "focus merchant" listed below.
We also ask that you take the listed steps to leave comments on website
forms, social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and review sites such
as Yelp and TripAdvisor.

Below the Focus Merchant information, you'll also find a complete list of High-Risk Restaurants and Theaters. Review
the list for merchants in your city, and let them know you don't
appreciate the anti-gun political statement they are making as part of
their business model. Respectfully tell them that as long as they are
posted against Conceal Handgun Permit-Holders, you're happy to take your
dollars elsewhere; somewhere that is safer, somewhere where your rights
are respected.

Below the High-Risk Restaurant list, you'll also find a "Welcome Back" list.
These are the restaurants and venues that, after hearing from
GRNC supporters like you, elected to remove their anti-gun signs, and
return to the freedom-friendly side. E-mail or stop in and thank these
merchants, but do not post on social networking or review sites.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

As House Republicans prepare to sell out the country on immigration this
week, Phyllis Schlafly has produced a stunning report on how
immigration is changing the country. The report is still embargoed, but
someone slipped me a copy, and it's too important to wait.

Leave aside the harm cheap labor being dumped on the country
does to the millions of unemployed Americans. What does it mean for the
Republican Party?

Immigrants -- all immigrants -- have always been the bulwark of
the Democratic Party. For one thing, recent arrivals tend to be poor
and in need of government assistance. Also, they're coming from
societies that are far more left-wing than our own. History shows that,
rather than fleeing those policies, they bring their cultures with them.
(Look at what New Yorkers did to Vermont.)

This is not a secret. For at least a century, there's never been a period when a majority of immigrants weren't Democrats.

At the current accelerated rate of immigration -- 1.1 million
new immigrants every year -- Republicans will be a fringe party in about
a decade.

Thanks to endless polling, we have a pretty good idea of what most immigrants believe.

Anyone who has ever loved something and had to let it go understands the
situation in America today. I don't care if it was a beloved Teddy Bear
patched over and over again, the material so thin that it can no
longer support new stitches or a great car that embodied and seemed to
recall all of the great times contained within its metal shell, there
comes a time to let go of the past and look to the future.

So, let us look at our history in America for a moment. It began as a
capitalist experiment (and I have been chided for that term for its
derivation from Marx as derogatory, but set that aside as we have never
known a free market and likely never will, and no, I will not engage the
debate here). It was a trading outpost for Britain, France and Spain,
each exploiting different parts of the new continent.

There was liberty. The respective crowns were distant and those who
braved the seas to arrive and occupy the land did so at their peril. It
made of us a risk-taking lot; it made of us self-reliant; it made of us
actors rather than reactors. Centuries passed, frontiers dissolved and
we arrived at modern America: a tangled web of misinformation,
disinformation and largely disconnected from our history. We are fed
fairy tales from the television, always spouting a liberal, leftist,
Marxist, totalitarian meme.

We are lost. Those of us who understand our rights, who understand the
Constitution and the way it was weaved through an understanding of God
as the supreme power, are few. The rest believe what they hear on the
news, or newspapers, or general gossip.

It’s no surprise that America’s newest anti-freedom group, Moms Demand Action Gun Bans (a wholly owned subsidiary of Michael Bloomberg’s anti-freedom Mayors Against Illegal Guns), would be interested in abrogating your first and
second amendment rights. Their latest attack on your freedoms comes via
social media, where they are encouraging Facebook to limit your right
to advertise your lawfully-owned firearms for sale on the world’s
largest social networking website.

Their
misguided ad claims that Facebook “hosts” gun sales. To the contrary:
Facebook is simply a vehicle for communicating, not unlike a newspaper, a
bulletin board in the lunchroom, or an Internet discussion forum. In
fact, Facebook would be a terrible place to conduct illegal gun sales;
any criminal foolish enough to break the law by selling guns illegally
on Facebook would find his communications well documented for the
resulting criminal court proceedings.

Where
will these intrusions into free speech end? Would agreeing to lend your
friend a modern sporting rifle through a Facebook instant message
violate the rules that the Nanny Moms are pushing to enact? It’s no
secret that the Nanny Moms already want to make it a federal crime
to lend your friend a rifle (as the draconian and unconstitutional
state laws of Colorado and New York already do—laws that many Colorado
sheriffs have recognized as unconstitutional, and laws that they have
refused to enforce).

Perhaps
the Moms’ next step will be to ban parking lots and dark alleys and
trunks of cars, where criminals might also ply their trade. All the
while, they are steadily chipping away at your God given rights to keep and bear arms, and to free speech.

Moms
Demand Action’s ultimate goal is to completely disarm Americans. Their
misguided belief that barring people the right to arm themselves for
lawful self-defense will somehow make us “safer” is as insidious as
their willingness to use their children to further their misguided
political agenda.

What
will you do to combat the Bloomberg-funded Nanny Moms? Will you stand
idly while they work tirelessly to abrogate your constitutional rights?
Or will you stand up and be heard?

Washington state Senator Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered the Republican “rebuttal” to President Obama’s State of the Union Address Tuesday night, which couldn’t be an easy task when having to respond diplomatically to an hour plus of lies. However, she gave the speech, and she did it gracefully. What she also did was inject a very pro-life narrative into her speech that was admirable.

America knows where she stands on the issues of life and how precious it is. Yet, vile feminist “comedian” Laura Levites responded with demonically charged tweets that send shivers down the spine. The state of The union is pathetic, and the state of the American culture is worse. Feminists have taken to obscenities that would never be publicly expressed a generation ago, much less said in private. But Satan is in full attack mode, and wicked feminists are seeing blood.

Conservative
historian M.E. Bradford was deeply concerned by the ongoing deification
and cult status of Lincoln, and how Yankee idolatry of him had so
blurred the history, nature and consequences of the war “as to render
Lincoln impervious to serious criticism.”

“As
[historian] Frank Owlsey complained in 1946, there was afoot in this
land, “what seems to me a Lincoln cult bordering on pagan deification
which is taking place in the popular mind of the North”; and it has been
seriously inspired by serious scholars, who have allowed their emotions
and bias to overemphasize certain elements and minimize others.”

In
his essay on “A Southerner’s View of Abraham Lincoln,” Owsley’s
principal complaint was not that Lincoln lacked moral scruples, but that
he frequently exercised poor judgment – as seen, for example, in *his
refusal to accept the Crittenden Compromise and in his naïve, persistent
belief that the people of the South would never support their leaders
in a war of secession.

I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution--which amendment,
however, I have not seen--has passed Congress, to the effect that the
Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions
of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid
misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to
speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a
provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to
its being made express and irrevocable.

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, Monday, March 4, 1861

**********

Lincoln,
argued Owsley, never fully grasped the depth of Southern patriotism or
the magnitude of the war, until it was too late to compromise. By
denying the South the right to self-government, Lincoln also subverted
the democratic principles of the document he so often cited as authority
for his constitutional views – the Declaration of Independence. “It
seems ironic to Southerners that the United States,” observed Owsley, “a
nation based upon the right of the people to live under a government of
their choice, should make war to prevent a people – the South – from
living under a government of their choice.”

No
less charitable with respect to Lincoln’s motives and moral reasoning,
Donald Davidson also questioned Lincoln’s political acumen . . .
asserting that the emancipator foolishly made war on his own ideas and
objectives, ruining both the South and the North while creating an
America he did not want.

[M.E.]
Bradford persuasively demonstrated [that Lincoln] was more than simply
wrong-headed; he was “dishonest” and “duplicitous” “pseudo-Puritan,” a
disingenuous “opportunist” guilty of “calculated posturing,” “historical
distortions,” and “high crime”; he was indeed “the American Caesar of
his age.” “It is at our peril,” Bradford cautioned, “that we continue
to reverence his name.”

(Walking
the Levee with Mel Bradford, James McClellan; A Defender of Southern
Conservatism, M.E. Bradford and His Achievements, Clyde N. Wilson,
editor, University of Missouri Press, 1999, pp. 45-46)

After months of searching, Beretta USA announced this morning that it
will expand its U.S. operations by building a new firearms
manufacturing plant just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

Beretta officials made the announcement along with Tennessee Gov.
Bill Haslam that the company will invest $45 million in a
state-of-the-art manufacturing and R&D facility, and bring to the
Volunteer State 300 new jobs. The company is expected to complete
construction on the facility this year in Gallatin Industrial Park.

For Heinz Naef, the verification of his record Alaska-Yukon moose by a Boone and Crockett Club (B&C)
panel was the proverbial icing on the cake. Naef’s record was all but
official when the rack was scored by B&C measurer Clint Walker last
month at 263-1/8. However, Naef needed to bring his moose to Reno,
Nevada for review by a Special Judges Panel as a formality.

In the end, the panel decided to bump up the final score to 263-5/8.
Those measurements make Naef’s moose one of only two to ever score above
260. The other was the previous world record, which was harvested by
John Crouse near Alaska’s Fortymile River two decades ago. That moose
scored 261-5/8.

Christian Contemporary music star Natalie Grant was nominated for two Grammys.

Grant was up for Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance for “Alive (Mary Magdelene),” a song she wrote with her husband Bernie Helms, and Best Christian Music Song for the chart-topping “Hurricane.”

The couple went to the Grammys proud to represent gospel music. Little did they know when they arrived at the Los Angeles Staples Center that they’d be going to church.

To warm up the congregation and open the service, Beyoncé twerked her ample bethonged derriere to the delight of millions. After that, Natalie and Bernie were subjected to Mrs. Carter sitting astride a chair in, shall we say, an extremely come-hither position.

The
Rijks museum in Holland had an idea: Let's bring the art to the people
and then, hopefully, they will come to see more - at the museum. They
took one Rembrandt painting from 1642, Night Watch and brought to life
the characters in it, placed them in a busy mall and the rest you can
see for yourself!

Remembrance

Execution of Colonel Ho Ngoc CanLast words: "If I won the war, I would not condemn you as you have condemned me.I would not humiliate you as you have humiliated me.I would not ask you questions that you asked me.I fought for the freedom of my people.I have merit and I am not guilty.No one can convict me.History will criticize you as my Communist enemy.You want to kill me, then kill me.Do not blindfold me.Down with the Communists.Long live the Republic of Viet Nam !"

Colonel CraigMandeville:

“They wanted the people to see that he was dead,” said Craig Mandeville, an American adviser to the South Vietnamese army who fought side by side with Can. “He was believed to be some sort of invincible guy. The North Vietnamese thought that, too, and I even thought that when I fought with him.”

“He said, ‘OK, the country’s fallen, but by God we’re still South Vietnamese and we’re free,’ ” Mandeville recalled. “So he went down to Chuong Tien province and rounded up all these soldiers down there to form a Free Vietnam.”

Col. Can didn’t live long after that, but the legacy of his struggle lives on.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.